Gustave Courtois | Academic painter

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.

Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him.

Henri Matisse | The Series of the Romanian Blouses

Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum

Henri Matisse's 'Romanian Blouse' is an exploration of composition, line, and form.

The movement of broad exuberant brushwork across the flat two-dimensional plane of the canvas emphasizes the energy of the composition and evokes the sitter's personality.

The Cincinnati Art Museum's painting is one of several paintings and drawings on a single theme - female models clothed in a boldly patterned Moroccan robes or embroidered Romanian blouses - that Matisse made in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum

Lee Lufkin Kaula | Impressionist painter

Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865-1957) was born on December 23, 1865 in Erie, Pennsylvania into an affluent family.

Lee Lufkin’s father was a wealthy lawyer who evidently left his daughter a comfortable income that allowed the painters [Lee and her husband] to concentrate on their work without needing other jobs.

A painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes throughout her career, she first trained in New York with Charles Melville Dewey, the American tonalist painter who had studied in Paris and worked with Carolus-Duran on a ceiling painting at the Louvre.

Gwen Murphy | Shoe Sculptures

Gwen Murphy, American sculptor, is a brilliant artist who breathes new life into old shoes, by transforming them from fashion accessories into intriguing works of art.

Ever since she was a little girl, Gwen liked to look at shoes and found that they were staring back at her, each pair with its own character and personality.

Depending on model and how worn out they were, some shoes sometimes looked sleepy, other times grouchy or fierce, some even looked like they were singing.

Hubertus van Hove | Genre / Romantic painter

Hubertus (Huib) van Hove (13 May 1814, in The Hague - 14 November 1865 Antwerp) was a Dutch painter, the son of Bartholomeus van Hove (1790-1880) and a teacher of some artists who became members of the Hague School.

Hubertus or Huib van Hove was taught painting not only by his father, but also by Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen.